No study on Earth would be published using such a flawed methodology. You can’t just retrospectively study people’s past opinions like that, compared them to current trans people, and expect any kind of reliability. No one would approve a study design like that. You’re full of it.
As this is a bill written by fascists, it will of course not attempt to regulate ghost job postings.
The problem for OpenAI and their ilk is that the actual legitimate uses of LLMs are so few and niche that they cannot hope to pay for the immense cost of developing and running these systems. Like, cool. Sure I can use copilot to generate derivative meme images, but what’s that actually worth to me monetarily? I’m not going to subscribe to a monthly service just to access a tool for shit posting.
Cissy freak.
You have a profound lack of critical thinking skills.
Here’s what you wrote:
Unfortunately I can’t find it again, because it was such an interesting and surprising bit of data, but I read a study some years ago that split trans people up into three categories, and compared the rate of suicide among them:
- in the closet
- out, and reported being supported overall by their community/peers after coming out
- out, and reported being unsupported overall by their community/peers after coming out
If you had to guess which of the three categories had the lowest suicide rate, I bet it’d be #2, right? So did I, but actually, the group with the least suicidality was #1! The implication that never coming out at all makes a trans person less likely to take their life than coming out to people who accept and support them was stunning, but there it was, in black and white. So what does that mean, exactly?
What this means is that you’re misremembering some study, are quoting a right wing hit piece, or are just pulling shit out of your ass. And it means you have a profound lack of critical thinking skills.
Just think about for a second. Actually THINK about it man!
How in the world are you going to have a study with any kind of statistical reliability, when you are polling trans people WHO ARE IN THE FUCKING CLOSET??!!
You do understand what those words mean, do you not? You’re talking about people who are not out. You’re talking about people who are not publicly out as trans. So obviously you can’t poll these people when trying to survey the trans population. At best you can just randomly poll the population and ask random people if they’re trans. But that method never works for small minority groups, as if even 1% of cis people lie on the survey and claim to be trans just to fuck with the results, the fake trans people will out number the real trans people in the survey.
Actually THINK about what drivel you are writing. How the hell can you make any claim about trans people that are in the closet? By definition, such people are indistinguishable from the larger cis population.
This is why I know that you’re pulling this stuff right out of your ass. You’re making a claim that is completely nonsensical.
You have failed at basic fundamental critical thinking.
I would think the aerosol or particle based shields would be even easier to remove than something up in orbit. The stuff in orbit will need to be pretty high up if you don’t want it to immediately decay and reenter, so anything in orbit will remain that way for some time. Plus there’s Kessler to worry about. But sulfurs and other aerosols wash out of the atmosphere pretty quickly. That’s the whole reason people talk about termination shocks, and fret that we’ll have to keep the aerosol effort continuously going. To me this seems like a virtue. If at any time we decide we don’t like the effects, we can simply stop. There’s no long term commitment.
I mean, I have been looking for a cult to join, if you were looking to start one.
I was going to go with Marx. Turns out religion is the LITERAL opiate of the masses!
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un
https://prospect.org/education/2023-02-28-university-california-blackstone-housing/
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/01/blackstone-cushman-wakefield-landlords-justice-department/
While I don’t support mass shootings in general, if someone is so far off the deep end that they’re going to throw their life away in an act of random violence, I at least hope they choose targets like Blackstone instead of a random elementary school. At least they’re smiting someone who deserves it, for once. The country would be a lot better off if we had several hundred corporate shootings and zero school shootings each year. No shooting period would be better. But if you’re going to go on a rampage, at least go after evil people first.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/26/blackstone-group-accused-global-housing-crisis-un
https://prospect.org/education/2023-02-28-university-california-blackstone-housing/
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/01/blackstone-cushman-wakefield-landlords-justice-department/
I don’t know anything about Wesley LePatner. Maybe she was the only innocent person at Blackstone and spent her whole day collecting a paycheck while scrolling Instagram. But if she really did embody the best of Blackstone, then frankly, she got what was coming to her. That company has been responsible for the immiseration and impoverishment of millions.
The point is we don’t have time anymore to address the root causes. If we had started decades ago, maybe we wouldn’t have needed solar modification. But now we’re just still playing pretend that we can solve this via CO2 cuts alone.
Here’s the problem. It takes decades to ramp up the industry and infrastructure necessary to move everything away from fossil fuels. There are hard requirements on material extraction that just can’t be popped up overnight. This isn’t software engineering; this is real physical industry and production. We are currently in the middle of an energy transition. But it’s going to take decades. If we just shut off that tap for fossil fuels tomorrow, billions of people would die from the fallout. We’re talking about completely rebuilding an infrastructure that we’ve spent the last two centuries constructing. We need to do all of this, while also having our production and construction sectors strained from all the adaptation we need to do to deal with the fallout of the warming climate!
It’s just magical thinking. It’s letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, I wish we could waive a magic wand and make oil go away overnight. But this is a 50 year project ahead of us, and we are already completely out of time. We’ve already passed +1.5C, and things are rapidly spiraling out of control.
I don’t give a shit if this is the perfect solution. I don’t care if it has downside risks. And I know full well the types of risks you’re talking about. But frankly, we just don’t have the luxury of worrying about those right now. Again, we are out of time. You’ll be smuggly patting yourself on the back, congratulating that you avoided the Futurama scenario, thankful that we never played God…as the last coral reef dies and the Amazon is a distant memory. The biosphere will be wrecked beyond repair, but at least we never got caught in that cloud seeding trap!
This study is incomplete. They cannot statistically say that there is no link between vaccines and autism. They need to run the statistical analysis to determine if vaccine researchers have higher than average autism rates, even after correcting for multiple confounding variables.
Honestly, we need to get over ourselves when it comes to sunlight modification. The fact that people are hand wringing about small trial projects that are just meant to investigate the concept is peak luddite thinking.
Do we need to be careful with the secondary effects? Yes. That’s why we start with pilot projects, see how they go, and work our way up. Is a termination shock a possibility? Yes, but who cares? The alternative is we just stew in the high temps all day every day.
I get the opposition to the technology, but ultimately it comes from a place of hubris and pride. People just don’t want to admit we’ve fucked things up so badly that now we need to resort to something as desperate as solar modification.
Well I’m sorry, but we’re out of time. We’re sitting here whining about possible side effects of this, when the consequences of not doing it are potentially biosphere-collapsing. Yes, I wish we had gone all in on renewables starting in 1980, but we don’t live on that timeline. It takes a long time to change the course of a ship the size of an industrial civilization, and there has been immense political headwinds. Hang all the oil execs if you want, that won’t change the fact that at this point, we have no reasonable path to avoiding the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and the collapse of entire biomes if we don’t do solar modification. We’re sitting here congratulating ourselves on not playing God as we watch as the Amazon rain forest burns down as a consequence of our own actions.
We need this technology. Yes, it sucks that we have to resort to it. But we are out of time. Right now, we are realistically looking at losing between 2-10% of the total human population by 2050 due to climate induced heat stroke and famine. Right now, the permafrost at the polls and the Greenland ice sheet are rapidly collapsing. Positive feedback loops are kicking in that mean that even if we cut off all emissions tomorrow, the temperature will still continue to snowball. This is a runaway train at this point. And the only hope we have of slowing it down is solar modification.
But people would rather keep their hands clean, refuse to “play God,” and do nothing as the world burns.
Jesus. Imagine if we could make gold cheap enough to make into soda cans. They wouldn’t even need that plastic liner. A truly infinitely recycleable solution to packaging of all sorts. Imagine if the bag on the inside of cereal boxes was made from gold foil. What’s so great about gold is it’s incredibly chemically stable. That means it won’t interact chemically with any food you package in it. And it’s an element, not some forever chemical that will pollute our bodies and environment.
I want to see a world where all cheap disposable packaging is made out of gold.
This is the true killer feature of prestidigitation. Lets you instantly clean a soiled object.
Too late for what? We’ve already locked in WW2-level casualties by mid century from hunger and heat stroke due to climate change. The fight now is to keep the deaths merely to WW2 levels, and not those equivalent to a nuclear war. There is still much to gain by fighting for change, but we’re not getting out of this unscathed. Realistically, by 2050, we’re set to lose between 2% and 10% of the total human population to famine and heat.
I’m referring to the Independent. The article is trash. They’re accusing her of “being a man.” It’s 2025, and newspapers are still using this disgusting language to refer to trans people.
Nothing like some casual transphobia. The UK is a garbage heap.
You mean in how magnificent they are?